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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Palestinian official says Israeli shelling has killed at least 27 Palestinians in southern Gaza as an Israel-Hamas truce unraveled less hours after coming into effect.
Health Ministry official Ashraf al-Kidra told The Associated Press that more than 100 Palestinians were wounded as a result of the Israeli shelling on Friday in and around the town of Rafah.
The three-day cease-fire, announced by the U.S. and the U.N. hours earlier, took effect at 8:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) Friday after heavy fighting that killed 17 Palestinians and five Israeli soldiers. Read more...
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LOS ANGELES — Repair crews on Thursday were shoring up a giant hole in the middle of Sunset Boulevard caused by a ruptured pipe, as officials at the water-logged University of California, Los Angeles, continued to assess damage from the 20 million gallons that inundated the campus.
Workers were reinforcing the excavated 56-by-41-foot crater and making the site safe for crews, said Mike Miller, district superintendent for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Meanwhile, workers off-site were fashioning new valves and a Y-joint connector to replace the burst section of the century-old steel line. Read more...
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Single life wouldn't be so bad if all the romantically attached people would shut up about it.
"Why aren't you seeing anyone?" seems to be the number one question on everyone's mind. You've heard it from your best friend, your sister, even your beloved grandma. Those who are contentedly coupled can still recall the irritating pressure from loved ones to settle down.
Secret-sharing app Whisper shared confessions of the blissfully and tragically single. Take note, mom.
Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments. Read more...
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Everyone has that person in the office. You know, the one who always seems to get way more done than everybody else, but who never seems stressed or frantically trying to finish an assignment. How does he or she get it done? And can you steal those secrets to improve your own productivity?
Yes. Yes you can.
Using time-tracking and productivity app DeskTime, we've been able to study the habits of the most productive employees — and pinpoint the working flow that leads to that incredible ability to get things done.
And the trick might surprise you. Turns out, what the most productive 10% of our users have in common is their ability to take effective breaks. Specifically, the most productive people work for 52 minutes at a time, then break for 17 minutes before getting back to it. Read more...
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A Springfield, Virginia man is under investigation after telling a coworker he hacked into gift card databases to add credit without paying for it.
Muneeb Akhter, 23, claims that he found holes in the software used to load prepaid gift cards and was able to add value illegally, NBC Washington reported. He is president of cyber security firm Warden Systems
However, Akhter said in a statement that he did it in the name of research and planned to use the data to counteract gift card theft
"I'm a researcher," Akhter told NBC. "I've been researching the field for a long time and a lot of my work shows it ... I'm not a malicious guy." Read more...
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In recent weeks, news have come out of Libya that is all too familiar
Guns rule the streets. 'Freedom fighters,' who once battled against oppression, now battle each other. There has been a bloody fight for the airport in Tripoli. The American Embassy has been evacuated, and the French and German governments have told its nationals to leave as has China.
You know things are bad when even #China urges its nationals to leave #Libya, v @XHNews http://t.co/5pKLlR89We
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) July 28, 2014
This week 75 bodies were found in Benghazi after days of fighting between the military and Islamist groups. As one piece put it: ‘Tripoli is burning.’ Read more...
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The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A for Europe, or SM-G901, has gone through the usual 'benchmarking before the launch' process. According to the leaked GFXBench results, the S5 LTE-A for Europe won't have the QHD display and you'll have to settle for a full HD display instead. The specifications page mentions the display being 5.2-inch, 1920x1080, slightly larger than the display on the standard Galaxy S5. The other specifications seem identical to the Korean model, however, including Snapdragon 805 SoC, with 2.5GHz quad-core CPU and Adreno 420 GPU, except here it will be powering a much lower resolution display. The RAM, however, is 2GB instead of 3GB and the benchmarked model had 16GB storage space. No word on when this phone will be available. Source •...
